Seagate CEO Bill Watkins claims "Breakthroughs in areal density are
enabling the digital revolution and clearly indicate that hard drives can
sustain their advantage to meet the world's insatiable demand for storage
across a wide range of market segments."

According to the press release put out by Seagate, the company claims a
1.8" disk drive produced on the same 421 Gbits per square inch technology
would result in a 275GB hard drive. 2.5" drives on the density would level
out around 500GB, and fully fledged 3.5" hard drives would be able to
house a density of 2.5 terabytes. Perhaps even more exciting is that
Seagate "anticipates that solutions at these density levels could begin to
emerge in 2009."